Re: ldapsearch equivalent with Net::LDAP

I should have guessed. No one in their right mind would be up this  
early. :-)

I tried Dumper and sure enough there was something in  
'errorMessage' (I wonder why it didn't give me an error return?). It  
said "Bad Filter" so now I have something to work with. Thanks.

On Nov 27, 2007, at 7:46 AM, Jeremiah Foster wrote:

> Heh, I am in Stockholm, Central European Time. :)
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dennis Putnam [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: den 27 november 2007 13:42
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc: Jeremiah Foster
>> Subject: Re: ldapsearch equivalent with Net::LDAP
>>
>> Thanks again. I see you are an early riser too. No, I am not
>> familiar with that (I'm not a Perl expert either). I'll look
>> it up and see what it can give me.
>>
>> On Nov 27, 2007, at 7:17 AM, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
>>
>>> Did you try using Data::Dumper? It is a built-in module and is
>>> incredibly useful. You can use it to dump out the contents of $mesg
>>> for example.
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Dennis Putnam [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>> Sent: den 27 november 2007 13:16
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Cc: Jeremiah Foster
>>>> Subject: Re: ldapsearch equivalent with Net::LDAP
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the reply. I'm not an LDAP expert either but
>> this issue is
>>>> more of a Perl Net::LDAP user than an LDAP expert per se.
>>>> Unfortunately there are no real world working script
>> examples readily
>>>> available. The samples that are, show the syntax but not
>> the context,
>>>> making them pretty much useless to the novice.
>>>>
>>>> The script is not 'die'ing so it never really gets to that point.
>>>> Whether I use '$!' or '$@' won't matter until I actually
>> get an error
>>>> condition. It appears that everything is working except the search
>>>> returns zero entries. Since 'ldapsearch'
>>>> works it is clearly not a server problem. That leaves only
>> the way I
>>>> am trying to use Net::LDAP. There does not appear to be any way to
>>>> cause Net::LDAP to generate informational messages about
>> the dialog
>>>> that occurs between it and the LDAP server. I don't see any way to
>>>> debug this.
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 27, 2007, at 3:20 AM, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Jeremiah Foster
>>>>> Sent: den 27 november 2007 09:20
>>>>> To: 'Dennis Putnam'
>>>>> Subject: RE: ldapsearch equivalent with Net::LDAP
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I am trying to do the equivalent of this search:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      ldapsearch -x -LLL -b "dc=ldaphost,dc=mydomain,dc=com" uid
>>>>>
>>>>> Caveat Emptor: I am no LDAP genius.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Here is one of the many variations I tried:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      use strict;
>>>>>>      use Net::LDAP;
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      my $ldap=Net::LDAP->new("ldaphost.mydomain.com") or
>> die "$@";
>>>>>
>>>>> Try replacing $@ with $!. You are using $@ which is the
>> eval error
>>>>> message, but I don't see where you are using eval. $!
>> will tell you
>>>>> what went wrong since it is the sys/libcall error message.
>>>>>
>>>>>>      my $mesg=$ldap->bind();
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      if ($#ARGV<0) {
>>>>>>              $mesg=$ldap->search(
>>>>>>                      base=>"dc=ldaphost,dc=mydomain,dc=com",
>>>>>>                      attrs=>["uid"]
>>>>>>              );
>>>>>>      print $mesg->entries(),"\n";
>>>>>>      }
>>>>>>      else {
>>>>>>      }
>>>>>>      $ldap->unbind();
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am just starting so my code is incomplete but it should
>>>> be enough
>>>>>> to
>>>>>
>>>>>> get something. However, I get nothing, not even an error.
>>>> Can someone
>>>>>> see what I am doing wrong? TIA.
>>>>>
>>>>> See what your code spits out now and diagnose from there.
>> Hopefully
>>>>> that is a start.
>>>>>
>>>>> 	Jeremiah
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>